From the Ashes

I’ve not forgotten you,
but I can’t remember love
as moments went unpromised,
 hours lost to wasted years
The future hiding one last spark,
 memories yet to burn 
that Fall we spent in lust’s inferno
—dancing in the flames


(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021

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